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Category Archive: 6b.) Mises.org

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The Fed Is Wrong to Make Policies Based upon the Phillips Curve

2022-09-17

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2022-09-17

Speaking at Jackson Hole, Wyoming, on August 26, 2022, the chair of the Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell, said the Fed must continue to raise interest rates—and keep them elevated for a while—to bring the fastest inflation in decades back under control.

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Insatiable Government

2022-09-16

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2022-09-16

In the minutes of the Chicago City Council, May 12th last, is the perfect example of how commonly we regard public credit. From bad taxation, reckless borrowing and reckless spending, the city of Chicago had so far prejudiced its own credit that for months it had been unable to meet its municipal payrolls either out of revenues or by discounting its notes at the bank.

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August’s Price Inflation Soared, and That Means Earnings Fell Yet Again

2022-09-16

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2022-09-16

The federal government’s Bureau of Labor Statistics released new price inflation data today, and the news wasn’t good. According to the BLS, Consumer Price Index (CPI) inflation rose 8.3 percent year over year during August, before seasonal adjustment. That’s the seventeenth month in a row of inflation above the Fed’s arbitrary 2 percent inflation target, and it’s six months in a row of price inflation above 8 percent.

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Promoting Natural Rights Instead of Conservatism: Looking at Rothbard and Jaffa

2022-09-14

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2022-09-14

This is the story of a man, an intellectual, born after World War I, who spent studying his university years in New York and became acquainted and studied under German Jewish émigré who fled the Nazi regime in Germany, later becoming mentor and protégé.

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Short-Term Market Volatility Is Not Entirely Random

2022-09-13

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2022-09-13

Over the present year we have experienced record-breaking price inflation, a series of interest rate hikes, and an overall fall in stock prices. It is widely accepted that there is a bubble. A good way for Misesians to measure this is by comparing the price of capital (stock prices) to its replacement cost (book value). A normal ratio for the overall market should be close to one.

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Auf dem Weg in die Befehls- und Lenkungswirtschaft (12.08.2022)

2022-09-12

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#thorstenpolleit #fiatgeld #zentralbankgeld #ezb #digitalgeld

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Democracy without Foundations

2022-09-12

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2022-09-12

In last week’s column, I criticized Jedediah Purdy for the ignorance of economic theory on display in his Two Cheers for Politics. Fortunately, the book contains much of interest, reflecting the author’s wide knowledge of the history of political philosophy. I have to say, though, that the main argument of the book strikes me as utterly unconvincing.

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We Cannot Interpret Economic Data Unless We Know Economic Theory

2022-09-12

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2022-09-12

Most economic commentators believe that historical data is the key in assessing the state of the economy. Thus, if a statistic such as real gross domestic product or industrial production displays a visible increase, then the economy is stronger. Conversely, a decline in the growth rate says the economy is weakening.

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Inflation, the Price Level, and Economic Growth: Everything the Elites Tell You about It Is Wrong

2022-09-11

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2022-09-11

Fundamentally, inflation is fraud. The central government or bank printing more money lessens the value of the money already in circulation. A truckload of sand isn’t particularly valuable in Saudi Arabia. An increased supply of money means ultimately that prices denominated in that money will go up.

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JEFF DEIST – TAXATION AS TERROR

2022-09-11

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By Compensating Slave Owners, Great Britain Negotiated a Peaceful End to Slavery

2022-09-10

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2022-09-10

The 2018 announcement that the British government completed the payment of a loan that was borrowed to compensate slave owners for the abolition of slavery continues to evoke a flurry of emotions.

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Inflation: State-Sponsored Terrorism

2022-09-09

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2022-09-09

Remember the quaint old days of 2019? We were told the US economy was in great shape. Inflation was low, jobs were plentiful, GDP was growing. And frankly, if covid had not come along, there is a pretty good chance Donald Trump would have been reelected.

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Does Reducing Unemployment through Government Spending Boost the Economy?

2022-09-09

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2022-09-09

Some experts hold that the key to economic growth is to strengthen the labor market, which is based on the view that because of the reduction in the number of unemployed workers, more individuals can afford to increase spending. As a result, economic growth follows suit.

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Throwing the Fed’s Machinery in Reverse: Fed Interest Rate Policies Continue to Damage the Economy

2022-09-08

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2022-09-08

According to Federal Reserve minutes from last month, Fed officials expressed a willingness to push ahead with a tight interest rate stance to eradicate the inflationary menace. For most commentators, inflation is seen as a general increase in the prices of goods and services, so raising interest rates will soften the increase in prices.

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Everything You Wanted to Know about Money, but Were Afraid to Ask

2022-09-08

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2022-09-08

Introduction. With my talk, I would like to accomplish three goals: First, I want to explain some sound and time-tested basics of monetary theory. Second, I would like to point out why it is important to have a free market in money; that the battlefront of our time is not between, say, bitcoin, stable coins, gold, and silver, but between government-monopolized fiat monies and a free market in money.

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When Honesty Is Disincentivized, Don’t Be Surprised That Trickery Abounds

2022-09-07

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2022-09-07

Appreciating cultural nuances is difficult without understanding the stories that provide insight into a society’s soul. Stories reflect a nation’s values, aspirations, and ideals. Songs, poems, and literature illuminate the tastes of citizens and even political and economic preferences.

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Booms, Busts, and Statistics: What the Mainstream Gets Wrong

2022-09-07

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2022-09-07

Per Bylund’s new book How to Think about the Economy: A Primer is now available online, in the Mises Store, and at Amazon. It’s an excellent beginning text for anyone looking to gain a better grasp of sound economics and to better understand what makes the Austrian school method different (and better). I recently asked Professor Bylund about some of the ways economics has been used and abused to support bad policy.

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Me and my brother #JesseSalesKing

2022-09-06

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Inflation in the USA: Where Do We Stand Today?

2022-09-06

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2022-09-06

A decline in the yearly growth rate of the Consumer Price Index (CPI) to 8.5 percent in July from 9.1 percent in June has prompted many commentators to suggest that inflation has likely peaked. If this assessment is valid then it is held Fed policy makers are unlikely to push for an aggressive interest rate tightening in the months ahead.

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The Praxeological Origins of the Price System

2022-09-06

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2022-09-06

The introduction of commodities into the market has interesting implications concerning Carl Menger’s value imputation. The subjectiveness behind this approach illustrates that marginal utility analysis may be used in the explanation of the price phenomena of a commodity, or more specifically, the price phenomena of a new item into the market.

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